Andrew Lamb runs sober living homes and stopped allowing visitors after residents lied about relationships and people took advantage. He now requires a seven-page intake process and directs residents to visit people outside the homes instead.
Now, another question we get is about visitors. Do we allow visitors? We personally do not. Early on, I made the mistake of letting people have visitors and they would lie. We also had some interesting. I didn't know how to do a proper intake. At the very beginning, we had some interesting people move in. That is completely changed once we implemented our full intake process with about seven pages of information. It's a ton of info that they have to give us first. And then we actually talk with them through the scenario, make sure they're motivated. But early on, we had some people who tried to take advantage of us, and we just said, you know what? No more visitors. It was like, you know, their best friend, and they said they were a cousin. It was a girlfriend who they said was a wife. And so we just said, you know what? If you need somebody to, you know, talk with, you can go visit them. They don't need to come here. So that was that.
